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Message-ID: <BLU103-DAV9F8A12C3BFA4AAAC0B7B4D6750@phx.gbl>
Date:	Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:48:34 -0700
From:	"Josh Goldsmith" <joshin@...mail.com>
To:	"David Newall" <david@...idnewall.com>, <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Small System Paging Problem - OOM-killer goes nuts

David:  The exact command this time was a "tar jxf linux-2.6.23.tar.bz2" as 
part of an emerge (gentoo).  Gnu tar version 1.18 but has happened with 
prior versions too.  I replicated it after my post by manually untarring it 
on the command line and can almost always replicate the problem with any 
large (GCC/kernel) tarball.  If I shut down all other processes, the untar 
will go longer but eventually the oom-killer will be invoked.

Pavel:  I'll ping Olver Neukum about it.

Thanks for the responses!
  -Josh

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Newall" <david@...idnewall.com>
To: "Josh Goldsmith" <joshin@...mail.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 4:57 AM
Subject: Re: Small System Paging Problem - OOM-killer goes nuts


> Josh Goldsmith wrote:
>> The problem comes when I try to untar a large file (in this case 
>> linux-2.6.23.tar.bz2).  Regardless if I kill off every other process, 
>> eventually the oom-killer will appear and kill either the tar or the 
>> shell.
>
> What's the actual command you are executing?
> 

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